Fewer Folks Taking Palin Seriously (Curry / Hartford Courant)

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Debate Didn't Restore Misplaced Luster
Bill Curry
October 5, 2008

Savor the irony. Sarah Palin's debate performance got raves from the mainstream media she and her handlers blame for, well, everything. The rap went like this: by "exceeding expectations" she'd won, once again breathing life into John McCain's corpse of a campaign. The magic was back!

Not so, according to actual viewers, who gave Joe Biden the nod by wide margins in every poll; 51 percent to 36 percent among those who saw a winner at CNN; 46-21 in a CBS poll and by a whopping 61-39 in a Fox online news poll. (Ouch.) The magic was back, but this time only the suckers were taken in ...

Palin's views are as extreme as Cheney's, and Alaska is her Halliburton. Her defiance of subpoenas in "Troopergate" echoes Bush, Cheney and Rove in the Scooter Libby/Valerie Plame Wilson fiasco, the U.S. attorney firings and a score of other dark dealings. She ought to be held to account but like Cheney, Palin got a pass ...

For her portrayal of the small-town sheriff forever saying "golly" and "you betcha," Frances McDormand won an Oscar. So should Palin. The resemblance is uncanny. Some reporter should find out if Palin talked that way before the movie came out ...

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/columnists/hc-curry1005.artoct05,0,3892237.column

[Waiting For Everyman]

1. If she keeps that winking up, she's going to be a total joke.

Voters are not in a mood to elect another one. About time they sobered up, too.

[DRoseDARs]

2. To be fair, that FOX News poll was of the "Vote early, vote often.." variety of online polls.

DU and Free Republic were both raping that poll, showing it no mercy. Fitting that FOX News didn't abort the poll, opting instead to force itself to keep the bastard results.